Bob Schwartz

ICE thwarted from entering Ecuador’s consulate in Minneapolis by employee

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent attempted to enter Ecuador’s consulate in Minneapolis, but was turned back by an employee, prompting an official complaint to the US embassy in Quito, the country’s foreign ministry said….

Video of the incident verified by Reuters showed an employee at the consulate telling the agent: “This is the consulate of Ecuador, you are not allowed to enter.”

“Relax, relax, I didn’t enter,” the agent replies, before telling the staffer: “If you touch me, I will grab you.” The agent leaves shortly after.

The Guardian

Consulates, like embassies, are inviolable. They are literally extensions of their respective nations on foreign soil. On a small scale, entering without permission is an invasion.

This current crop of ICE agents appears to be either poorly trained, or incompetent, or overzealous, or violent, or unstable, or ignorant, or believe they are invulnerable and unaccountable, or some combination. Their bosses appear to be either poorly trained, or incompetent, or overzealous, or violent, or unstable, or ignorant, or believe they are invulnerable and unaccountable, or some combination.

The recent murders by ICE in Minneapolis are explosive high-profile examples of where things are and where they are going. So the attempted forced entry into a foreign nation’s consulate may seem less significant. It is not.

None other than the capo di tutti capi, the big chief, the head man, told the world that the only guardrail and restriction on his actions and orders was his own morality. That tells us all we have to know about the next three years—or more.